No less than 50 departments, especially in the north-east of France, are today on drought alert. For the president of the Young Farmers, Samuel Vandaele, expressed on Europe 1 his "fears vis-à-vis the outbreaks of fire", as well as "to work the soil, tomorrow".

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It's a summer catchphrase that knows very few breaks: drought is still raging over a large part of France, to the point that more than 50 departments are now on alert, especially in the northeastern quarter of the country. . Is it due to too much land use by industrialized agriculture? Not really, for Samuel Vandaele. The president of the Young Farmers, guest of Europe 1, Tuesday evening, estimates that "the droughts arrive more and more with the climatic disturbance".

Towards better water storage in winter?

"It's very, very dry, we are slowly finishing the harvests," says the operator of Seine-et-Marne, a department on drought alert and affected by water restrictions. "There are a lot of fears about the outbreak of fire and about working the soil tomorrow."

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Fears, but also fighting to avoid new episodes of great drought: "We are carrying out a fairly ambitious project to be able to store water in winter, which falls in abundance", explains Samuel Vandaele in the Grand Journal du soir . "We must be able to give water back to our crops and have much less impact and withdrawal from groundwater."